Aspire: The Campaign for Mercer University, seeks to secure financial resources that will empower Mercer, already emerging among the Southeast's elite private research universities, to become an international leader in deploying its intellectual capital to better serve the needs of humankind. By engaging its alumni and friends to join in this effort, the University will achieve a stronger endowment, enhance its facilities, and expand its capacity to teach, to learn, to create, to discover, to inspire, to empower and to serve.